BERLIN — On the crest of celebrating its 10-year anniversary this October, SonRise Church in Berlin hopes to expand its congregation as well as its role in the community over the course of its next 10 years.Lead Pastor Daryl McCready, who helped found the then 16-member congregation in 2002, has watched membership boom over the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A quaint community center has opened up downtown to assist international students working and living in Ocean City.A ribbon cutting was held on Monday afternoon to open the All Friends Community Center for Youth. The ceremony was conducted by Smart Staff, who is dedicated to matching qualified international students with short-term seasonal… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Hurricane season is here and after last year’s near-miss with Hurricane Irene, Royal Plus President Matt Odachowski presented local business owners and public officials with tips on how to prepare and respond if a disaster should strike Ocean City.Odachowski drove this point home by highlighting some of the situations that his company’s… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Art’s Alive celebrates its 12th year of presenting fabulous fine arts in the beautiful setting of Ocean City’s Northside Park on Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17. Admission is free.Stroll along the park’s winding pathways and browse the artist tents filled with the beautiful works of more than 100 artists. All artwork is… Read more »
OEAN CITY — Baby Ava’s Ocean City Beach Weekend kicks off Friday and continues through the weekend with proceeds benefiting the DelRicco family and on its ongoing expenses with Ava’s recovery.Back in December, then 18-month-old Ava DelRicco and her mother, Ann Marie, were rear-ended on Coastal Highway by a motor vehicle traveling at a high… Read more »
BERLIN — The state of Massachusetts has become so fed up with child abuse that agents there began the “Enough Abuse Campaign” in 2002. A decade later, officials in Worcester County are bringing the program to the Eastern Shore.Partners from the Berlin Police Department (BPD) and the Children’s Resource Intervention Center, Kids Empowerment Team (CRICKET),… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The only black cloud over the impressive Ocean City Air Show last weekend was another pedestrian-vehicle collision early Tuesday involving a crewmember from the signature U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds team.For the third time in about two weeks, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross Coastal Highway near 54th… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Five suspects were arrested, including two carrying replica handguns, during a Boardwalk drug sweep earlier this month.From 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on June 2, the Ocean City Police Narcotics Unit and the Worcester County Criminal Enforcement Team conducted a plainclothes drug enforcement operation on the Boardwalk to target drug dealers and… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A Baltimore man was arrested on first-degree assault and other charges this week after allegedly pulling a knife on and threatening to kill another man in the middle of melee on a downtown street.Shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday, an OCPD officer working in a plain clothes capacity in the area of… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – City employees said last week they are planning on wrapping up petition efforts to gain the right to collective bargaining by the end of this month.In the beginning of the year, rumors began to spread that general employees intended to pursue collective bargaining. In February, city employees packed council chambers to reveal… Read more »